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|accepted_name=Eriochloa punctata
|accepted_authority=(L.) Desv. ex Ham.
|publications=
|common_names=Louisiana cupgrass
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Eriochloa;Eriochloa punctata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eriochloa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eriochloa punctata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 511
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomatous, often flowering the first year and, resembling an annual. <b>Culms</b> 30-150 cm, erect or decumbent, not rooting at the lower nodes; internodes glabrous; nodes 3-10, glabrate. <b>Sheaths</b> occasionally inflated, glabrous (rarely puberulent), often purplish at maturity; ligules 0.4-1 mm; blades 10-50 cm long, (2)4-10(13) mm wide, linear, flat, straight, spreading, glabrous (rarely puberulent) on both surfaces. <b>Panicles</b> 9-22 cm long, 1-10 cm wide, contracted, rarely open; rachises scabrous to densely pubescent; branches (4)8-20(27), 1-6 cm long, 0.3-0.5 mm wide, appressed or divergent, glabrous, not winged, with 28-60 spikelets, spikelets mostly in unequally pedicellate pairs, solitary distally; pedicels 0.1-0.7 mm, uniformly pubescent, hairs about 0.1 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> (4)4.5-5.7 mm long, 0.9-1.4 mm wide. <b>Upper</b> glumes equaling the lower lemmas, lanceolate, sparsely appressed pilose, 5-7-veined, acuminate, sometimes mucronate, mucro shorter than 0.5 mm; lower lemmas 4.3-5.5 mm long, 0.9-1.4 mm wide, lanceolate, setose, 5-7-veined, acuminate, unawned or mucronate; lower paleas absent; anthers absent; upper lemmas 2-3.5 mm (excluding the awn), 0.4-0.6 times as long as the lower lemmas, indurate, elliptic, 5-veined, rounded, awned, awns 0.6-1.5 mm; upper paleas 0.5-1.2 mm, indurate, blunt. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|distribution=Md.;Ga.;Tex.;La.;Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Miss.
|discussion=<p>Eriochloa punctata grows in coastal marshes, along water courses, and in moist swales and ditches of the coastal plain from Texas and Louisiana south through Mexico to Central and South America. It has not been possible to verify the identification of the specimen from Georgia for this treatment. If correct, it suggests that the species may be more widespread than generally thought.</p>
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name=Eriochloa punctata
|author=
|authority=(L.) Desv. ex Ham.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik and Cindy Roché
|distribution=Md.;Ga.;Tex.;La.;Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Miss.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Eriochloa
|species=Eriochloa punctata
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